RECENT ARRIVALS

By SHUTE Nevil

London: Heinemann, 1954 Heinemann 1954 (first impression and printing) VG red cloth hardback with minor rubbing to edges and slight spotting to spine, fep has owners inscription covered over with white correction fluid ( twink, tippex) and booksellers stamp. The dust jacket is from a SECOND IMPRESSION issue, and has been trimmed slightly to top edge so is a few mm shorter than the boards, and the fore edge of the front fold in flap has been trimmed a little, losing the publisher's price. Shute writes of his involvement in the airship R100 among other things, closed top edges a little foxed. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

By McLAREN Jan, and Richard Becht

Auckland: Harper Collins, 2011 He was all things to motor racing - a man whose prodigious gifts earned him a place in history. In 1959 he became the world's youngest and New Zealand's first F1 Grand Prix winner - a record that would stand for almost 50 years. Tragically, on 2 June 1970, less than 11 years after his first Grand Prix success, Bruce Leslie McLaren died at the wheel of his car, on the test track. Packing more into those glorious days than seemed possible, in an extraordinary twist of fate, his fame reached greater heights after his death, as the motor-racing company he named and created became one of the most prestigious, vying with the likes of Mercedes, Renault and Ferrari. While McLaren began as a driver, he was also a visionary, who became an exceptional engineer, constructor, designer and inventor. Now, 40 years after it ended so abruptly, his life and achievements are celebrated as never before, in The Bruce McLaren Scrapbook.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Landscape 8vo.

By FRATER Alexander

London: Heinemann, 1986 A tidy copy in unclipped dust jacket, private library stamp with marker stripe to free end paper and title pages, 430pp, history of the airline company and the routes from London to Brisbane via the Middle East and South East Asia. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

By WAUGH Richard, Peter Layne & Graeme McConnell

Invercargill: Kynaston Charitable Trust, 2007 (2kg rate so DOUBLE the standard shipping cost) rare first edition, 320pp with over 500 photographs (many in colour) and memorabilia, New Zealand National Airways Corporation (NAC) was created by the post-war Labour Government nationalising all private airlines and forming the first State-owned Enterprise. During its 31 years of operation NAC was New Zealand's major domestic airline until it was merged with Air New Zealand in 1978. Pictorial hard covers, signed by all three authors to title, rare first edition, not the later reprint. Signed by Author. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Fine/No Jacket. landscape 4to.

By MAHON Peter

Auckland: Collins, 1984 296pp + plates, map endpapers. An investigation into the crash of an Air New Zealand DC 10 tourist plane into Mount Erebus in Antarctica, and the official reports that followed.clean book and DW, includes the front portion of publisher's advertising band ( red paper band printed with "an airline's dilemma"). reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

By MARKHAM Beryl

London: Harrap, 1943 price clipped DW, hole clipped from fold in flap, also to spine is an Australasian price label with hole clipped through it, head and tail of spine, and corners rubbed with some minor chipping loss, some mild edge creases, generally intact and complete, book has minor foxing to endpapers and closed edges, war era paper stock, 253pp an amazing aviation pioneer, DW by Y. Ellis. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Y. Ellis. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

By WHITE Leo

Auckland: Whites Aviation, 1945 cloth soiled and with some rubbing to edges, top edge of upper board rubbed back to the card board, internally clean, signed in ink to title by author, 192pp+ plates, well illustrated. Signed by Author. Second Impression. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.